Flip Card

The challenge at WeCraftCards.com this week is to make a “flip flop” card. This is the type I found, when I searched. The hello piece flips to the inside when you open it. There is a white panel the same as the gray on the inside to write on.

Used one of the leftover MFT hello’s I cut out a few weeks ago for a card. As they were about the same color as the MFT Color Challenge, I’m entering this in that challenge. Just imagine the pink is a light purple. 😉

The pink and dark gray are shimmer card stock, so I’m also putting this in the SimonSaysStamp Monday challenge of shimmer and glimmer.

This was easy to make and fun. Also made some background today, so I’m hoping to get card made with them, soon.

Thank you for spending some of your valuable time with me today!

Sweet Elephant

MFT has an interesting sketch challenge up for this week:

They also have a nice color challenge up:

So, I thought it would be fun to play with both.

The elephant really is a dark gray, but the purple shows through the acetate a bit more than anticipated. I was pleasantly surprised at how well alcohol markers worked on acetate.

For this I used:

• Picket Fence Funky Leaves Stencil
• Pixie Spray
• Ranger Distress Oxide ink in Tumbled Glass and Shaded Lilac
• Blending brushes
• Versamark Ink
• Ranger Black Super Fine Detail embossing powder
• Hot Off The Press Heat Resistant Acetate
• Marvy Heat Tool
• Chantilly Cream card
• White card
• MFT Sweetest Safari Set 1

Had a lot of fun making this card. I finally figured out how to make my Pixie Spray work right. Don’t follow the instructions, use it about 3 inches above the stencils.

I’m excited to use another stencil I sprayed with Pixie Spray and try it with something new. Ideas are brewing, now to find time to try them.

Thank you for spending some of your valuable time with me today! Have a wonderful week!

Color Challenge

MFT’s current color challenge is the following:

I thought these were interesting colors. Now, I have Fire Coral in ink, but not in card, so had to improvise with that one. But I smeared some ink on a piece of white paper and found the closest card I could.

I cut strips of all the card, except for the kraft, some wide, some narrow and made a couple of backgrounds. I thought the floating letters would be good on the thin stripes and the wider stripes would look good behind the cut outs. Found a bit of “bling” to match, then used shimmer pen over the floating letters. I like how they both turned out. As I used the positive and negative of the one die, it worked to show them together.

See, Camp Create has gotten me creating again. That’s a good thing.

Thanks for spending some of your valuable time with me today!

New Colors

MFT’s Color challenge last week used 4 of their new colors. I have this amazing friend that had purchased the color cubes to see if she liked them, was impressed, so got the regular size ink pads and gave the cubes to me. So, I actually had the colors. Swiped the pads across paper to make it the right colors, with a bit of blending between and I was set.

Sprayed some Perfect Pearls on the base, used their celebrate and heart balloons dies and had a card done fairly quickly. I did adhere a white panel inside, along with a balloon in each color.

This was quick and easy to make a simple card.

Thanks for spending some of your valuable time with me today! Now, go do something fun. Or, have fun doing something necessary.

One More

Had time to do one more card that works for both of the MFT challenges this week: sketch and color.

Had a lot of fun doing the background of strips of the correct color of card, then colored using those colors, as well.

I thought about using the full panel for the background, then figured I would show a way to cut it down, so it’s the same size as a small slimline, so perfectly follows the sketch challenge, while still being an A2 sized card. My piece was cut down first to just show a white border around the edges of an A2 card, then I cut it to 3 inches wide. Had fun changing it up.

Thank you for spending some of your valuable time with me today! Enjoy the rest of your day.

A Bit of Fun

The WeCraftCard.com challenge for this week was to make a card that shows why you are you, with your favorite color. The answer to that is God is who makes me and gives me purpose, so I went with the purpose He gave me: to encourage others. Added the MFT Color challenge into it, as teal is my favorite color, in it’s many shades.

So, as I usually encourage others with a card and/or a smile, I made a card, with some teal, that hopefully will bring a smile to someone’s face. This adorable set is from MFT and was designed by Birdie Brown. Now why any of the sets Birdie Brown designed would ever be retired is beyond me, as they are timeless, but apparently they retired this one. I used all the colors from the MFT color challenge in it and had some fun coloring, as well. Used alcohol markers on it, as well as pencils on the colored card.

Now, this next card was done for the MFT Sketch Challenge this week.

It is a slimline card, which is what their sketch was. This cute stamp set is from MFT, as well. Had fun making both the background and coloring this cute giraffe on a pogo stick. Adding this into the SimonSaysStampBlog Wednesday challenge, as well.

As I’m hosting the WeCraftCard.com challenge next week, I’ll give you a hint that this is one of my examples. Won’t tell you what the challenge entails, however.

Thanks for spending some of your valuable time with me today! Go enjoy the rest of your weekend and thank God for the many ways He has blessed you.

Flipped Sketch

I finally got back in the craft room and made this for the current MFT Sketch and Color challenges.

For this I used the following supplies:

• Background patterned card is DCWV Once Upon A time
• MFT card is: Lemon Chiffon, Tickled Pink, Ripe Raspberry, Jellybean Green
• Translucent Vellum
• MFT Die-Namics: Cheers, Hearts
• Big Shot
• Adhesive: liquid and vellum (Therm-o-web)

 

If all goes well, I’ll have some time to work on cards this weekend, too.  Thank you for spending some of your valuable time with me today.

Rain Play

It’s always fun to go out and play in the rain.  Okay, I live in the desert, so maybe I enjoy rainy days more than most, as they are rare.  But, I love splashing in puddles and just letting the rain fall on me.

So, here is a card that I made showing that joy in rain.  I used the My Favorite Things sketch challenge, color challenge, and the Double D rain challenge as inspiration.

For the Double D challenge, you had to have showers and flowers, so in addition to my two orange flowers on the base, I added 3 orange flowers in the shaker with some orange, blue and silver (gray) sequins.

The picture doesn’t show sparkle, but the metal parts of the umbrella and the handle, as well as the bottom of her boots and eyes all have some sparkle.  Also added sparkle to the blue and orange flowers on the bottom.  The picture makes the centers of those flowers look green, but it’s a blue.

I hope this card encourages you.  Thank you for spending some of your valuable time with me today.

Leftovers

I can’t stand to waste and I really liked the front panel I did for Easter card attempt 2, so used what I had cut out of that panel to make another card.  Embossed the cross again, but on that panel, this time.  Did it on white again, too.  Inked another base card with blue, then put it all together.  Yes, I’m putting this in all 3 challenges, again: Mod Squad, MFT sketch and MFT color.

This one makes me happy, too.  It’s a peaceful reminder of the truth of who Jesus is and who I am because of what He did for me.

Thanks for a bit more of your time.

A Second Attempt

Decided to try another Easter card.  It’s my favorite time of the year, as it’s why I have hope, so had to find a good way to share that.

For this one, I used some Distress Oxide inks to blend the front panel and the front of the base card.  Oh, this made me so much happier.  I embossed the cross on the base card, after doing the ink blending, in a copper embossing powder.  The lily needed to stand out, at least the one, so embossed it again on white card.  Cut that one out and popped it up.  Used a Silhouette torn rectangle die on the front panel, so you could see the cross.

This I like.  Sigh of contentment.

Thanks for checking back in with me.  I’ll be adding this to the MFT sketch challenge, color challenge, and the Mod Squad challenge.